Re: Automated handling of attached files with souper/yarn

Jon Duckworth (jond@biddeford.com)
Sat, 24 Aug 1996 17:15:44 -0400

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In lists.yarn-list,
article <199608242053.WAA08447@toad.stack.urc.tue.nl>, you wrote:
>> > Yarn folders are big-endian, but SOUP packets of type "b" and "B"
>> > are LITTLE-endian.
>>
>> Nope; SOUP specification 1.2 specifically says that types 'b' and 'B' are
>> big-endian (high-byte first, low-byte last):
>
>In any case, Yarn and SOUP don't use the sme encoding scheme. And
>that is what I was trying to warn for. Something that works for SOUP
>files can't handle Yarn folders, and the other way around.

Oh, pshaw. It could do both couldn't it? :-) But that doesn't excuse me
for being wrong in the first place though.

>
>Galactus
>

Jon
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